Chapter 126: The Beizhili Flat Land Movement

Lu Xiangsheng came to the outside of Hetuala, and Dai Shan took the banner owners, and the big and small Baylors knelt on the ground to greet him. Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward to help Dai Shan and said, "Da Baylor has worked hard, please get up quickly." ”

Dai Shan said: "If the criminal minister disobeys the Ming Emperor, the crime deserves death, please punish the bachelor of the country." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Big Baylor is serious. My emperor has a decree to invite Da Baylor to meet in the capital, and everyone will discuss Jurchen matters together. When the Great Baylor is free, Elephant Sheng will escort Baylor there. ”

Dai Shan hurriedly said: "The criminal minister is free at any time, but the Jurchens still need someone to watch, can the dog Zi Yuetuo temporarily stay in Hetuara in order to cooperate with the Ming army?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Hetuala naturally wants to keep people to lead the flags, and the emperor of my family has his own arrangements. Big Baylor gets up first, and let's discuss these little things together. ”

Dai Shan stood up and glanced at Yue Tuo. I thought to myself: "I've said everything that should be said, and as for whether it can work, it's not something you and I can control." ”

Yue Tuo and the others stood up, and Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Why don't you see Erbeile." ”

Dai Shanqiang said with a smile: "Erbeile was injured on the battlefield, and later he overworked and went to the immortals. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a sad face: "It's a pity. In the future, there will be more places to use Baylor, poor Baylor died young, please mourn and change. ”

These words made the originally depressed Houjin people very excited, since there is still a place to use it, it means that it will not be killed by the Ming Emperor, so it seems that surrender is not a bad thing.

After the guards entered the city, they only sealed the Khan's palace, and nothing else was touched. The next day, Lu Xiangsheng invited Daishan and Houjin Zhuren into a carriage and headed for the capital, and the people who stayed behind were Du Du and Zierharang.

Lu Xiangsheng asked the Jianzhou people to start building houses outside the city of Hetuala, and the houses were only two hundred steps away from the city wall, surrounding the entire city of Hetuala, and then ordered all the Houjin people to move out of Hetuara and live in the houses they had built.

Man Gui led all the five divisions of the Guards to Hetuala, while the first division of the Guards began to reclaim the land with the Jurchens in preparation for sowing autumn corn. The Jurchens also knew that the situation was stronger than people, but they also quietly worked every day according to the requirements of the guards, and they couldn't farm, but they only needed strength to reclaim the land, so it was very simple.

At this time, the beggars in the labor camps in various parts of the north were sent to southern Liaoning by boat. After arriving in southern Liaoning, they formed a team to the north, some of them went to the abandoned fields of Liaoshen and began to plant, and some of them came to the vicinity of Hetuara and began to plant corn on the wasteland reclaimed by the Jurchens. After the departure of the prisoners, there is now a serious shortage of people in the places where there were manpower available.

Yang Lian finally waited for such a good situation, he is now the chief official of the Ming cultivator Youqitian Yamen, before that, he had made a lot of plans with his subordinates, and he was waiting for this day.

The prisoners have reclaimed a large amount of wasteland, which was reclaimed in the same way as Qian'an, with wide avenues and houses adjacent to the land. Yang Lian began to sell land in the name of the imperial court near the wasteland. As long as the peasants are landless or have little land, they can get the wasteland at a limit of 20 mu per person, and the price of the wasteland is for a period of 10 years, and 10% of the land is returned in kind every year.

Since wasteland does not have to pay taxes for ten years, such a good thing is of course something that everyone wants. The peasants who originally owned land could sell their land to the imperial court at the same price.

Zhang Mingcheng's family has five people, two husband and wife, two sons and one daughter. Originally, the family had five acres of land, and Zhang Dashan's family also planted 50 acres of land. After hard work, I can barely get enough food and clothing. Now after hearing the news, some are hesitant, and the cultivators have the servants of their fields and yamen to come to do their work.

He said: "If you go to the new village that is being opened now, you can get a total of 100 acres of land, plus a house that is stronger than your family." The price of one acre of land is five yuan, so excluding your family's original five acres of land, that is 475 yuan. Ten years are over, and it is forty-seven yuan and five jiao per year. If you grow wheat, even if you harvest one stone per acre, it is still a hundred stones. ”

"If you pay forty-seven and a half stones, you will pay back the year's land money. Your family only needs more than 30 stone grain at most to ensure that your family needs, and it can be sold for more than 20 yuan, and all kinds of expenses at home can be satisfied. ”

"In fact, it is impossible to collect only one stone per acre of land, and even if it is wasteland, there is no problem with five stones. Then in addition to leaving rations, the income of one year can be used to pay off the money for buying cattle, and the next year you can buy some dowry for the little lady, or talk about a family affair to the boss. Besides, if you grow new potatoes and sweet potatoes, the yield can scare you. It can be more affordable than growing wheat. ”

"Is it hard to leave your homeland? The new village is only thirty miles away from you, and it only takes half a day to go home and sweep the grave? Besides, if you want, there is now a cemetery on the local mountain, and you can move the ancestral grave there, and there are special people responsible for the whole process, and it only costs five yuan to move a grave, which is not easy to encounter. ”

Zhang Mingcheng looked at the old wife and children, the old wife looked like you were in charge, and the children were full of excitement and eager to try. The eldest son said: "Daddy, our brothers have all their strength, plus a cow, you just need to point us out, and my second brother and I can take over a hundred acres of land." ”

Zhang Mingcheng gritted his teeth and said: "The emperor will never pit us, so let's move,"

As soon as Zhang Mingcheng moved, no one planted Zhang Dashan's land, and it was not only Zhang Mingcheng's family who went to the new village, so Zhang Dashan had no choice but to sell the land cheaply. The cultivators have their own fields, and the yamen collected the fields in various places in the name of the imperial court, and those landlords have gone crazy, as long as they can exchange some money, they naturally can't ask for it, so Yang Lian not only recovered a large number of fields, but also got some good reputation.

At this time, the emperor assigned more than 20,000 Jurchens to Yang Lian's command and instructed: "Don't abuse, give food when you do something." "At the same time, there are also 5,000 guards overseers here in Yang Lian. The Jurchens, under the guidance of the overseer, began to level the land and build roads, and after Yang Lian hanged the two Jurchens who wanted to make trouble from a tree, the other Jurchens quieted down and began their journey of atonement.

The Jurchens kept leveling the land, and Yang Lian kept selling the flat land to nearby landless peasants. In Beizhili, the movement of cultivators owning their fields was vigorously carried out in a much better situation than before. This is the famous Beizhili Flatland Movement in history, and in two years, the whole territory of Beizhili, Shanxi and some parts of Shandong, there are no landless peasants. Under the guidance of the agricultural students of the institute, the farmers have burst out with great enthusiasm on their own land, and intensive cultivation has achieved excellent results. The average yield of wheat per mu reached two stone three.

As a result of this kind of output, a large part of the grain in Beijing came from the rural areas of Beizhili, and the grain transported from the south was greatly reduced, and the five years of the Apocalypse were only ninety percent of the four years of the Apocalypse, while the six years of the Apocalypse were reduced to eighty percent, and the seven years of the Apocalypse were reduced to six percent and five percent.